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Promoting Heritage is a challenge for all generations. The heritage is a legacy that we inherit from our ancestors and that we should deliver to our decedents. In this sense, the first steep that we should take, after preserve the heritage, is to develop solutions that enable effective and democratic ways to promote it. This promotion starts with the ability that of those who visit this heritage he able to know and enjoy it. Information and Communication Technologies and specifically Pervasive and Mobile Computing represents nowadays a big opportunity to develop innovative solutions capable to inform tourists about heritage and even enable them to experience past realities related to immaterial heritage like ancestral legends, past events and even no longer existing physical patrimony. This paper starts to make a reflection and the evolution the information and Communication Technologies role on tourism and present a technological architecture to respond to the challenge of promote heritage and inform tourist in their travel experiences. After that, the paper presents also a developed prototype created to the Portuguese City of Mirandela capable to promote its historical and gastronomic heritage and also support the tours of the tourists through its territory. Finally, there are made some remarks about the future growing and directions for technology applied to tourism.

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The proposed tuning method for integrating processes, which is based on Magnitude optimum criterion, has been extended to PID types of controllers. The method requires either the process transfer function (in frequency-domain) or the measurement of process steady-state change (in time-domain). The PID controller parameters are calculated analytically by solving fourth-order polynomial. By changing reference-weighting parameter b, the user can favour tracking (higher b) or control performance (lower b). The proposed method has been tested on several process models (lower-order with delay, higher order with delay, and a phase non-minimum process) and the closed-loop responses were relatively fast and non-oscillatory. The comparison with other tuning method based on process step-response data results in favourable tracking and control performance. © 2018

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Switched reluctance machines (SRM) are simple, robust and fault tolerant machines, usually operating under strong nonlinear characteristics. Therefore, accurately modeling this machine is a demanding task. Several models have been proposed, where magnetic saturation is often addressed, without considering hysteresis effect. In the proposed model the SRM magnetization characteristics are generated through the Jiles-Atherton (J-A) hysteresis model. Thus, instead of a post-processing inclusion, hysteresis is considered in simulation. This is the model main attribute, which is discussed in detail. This may contribute for a better understanding of hysteresis impact over the SRM operation modes. Simulation results are also presented and discussed.

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This paper will review the fabrication of monolithic integrated optical devices by laser direct writing with femtosecond pulsed laser sources, starting with the description of experimental procedures and optimal conditions to fabricate low loss optical waveguides, directional couplers, Y-junctions and first order Bragg gratings by point-by-point writing methods. Finally, the characterization results of a fully operational Add-Drop filter in pure fused silica substrate are described.